A practical account of a remittent fever, frequently occurring among the troops in this climate / by Thomas Sutton.

Date:
1806
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Credit: A practical account of a remittent fever, frequently occurring among the troops in this climate / by Thomas Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    METHOB OF CFBE. BEFORE entering upon an accpunt of the effects of some of the principal remedies, adopted for the cure of this fever, it may not be improper to introduce a statement of the comparative mor- tality of the disease under some different plans of treatment. In one instance of the occurrence of this disease, when treated as Typhus, out of thirty-seven pa- tients received into the hospital eleven died. In another, where the same treatment was pur- sued upon a moderated plan (that is to say, with-* out pressing the use of the bark, opium, wine, &c. in the early stage of the disease), out of ninety*rtwo patients eighteen died. In another, in which the disease was treated as Synochus, where moderate bleeding and evacuanis were employed in the beginning of the disease, and the usual remedies for Typhus were after- wards resorted to, the mottality was upon the average of three in twenty. By the treatment in which venesection has been